PGA Tour has 1 fewer event, $4 million less money
December 19, 2009
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP)—The PGA Tour has one fewer tournament and a $3.9million drop in prize money for next year.
The tour earlier announced the main portion of its schedule. On Friday, itreleased the dates for the four tournaments in the Fall Series, along with prizemoney for the regular tour events.
If the majors and The Players Championship keep their prize money even, thetotal purse for next year will be $270.8 million, down from $274.7 million thisyear.
The difference primarily is the loss of the Milwaukee tournament and its $4million purse. And while 10 tournaments have purse increases, the Turning StoneResort Championship has lowered its purse from $6 million to $4 million. Thatevent is moving from the Fall Series to the same week as the World GolfChampionship at Firestone.
The tour says it has 46 tournaments on its schedule that count towardofficial money. That presumably includes a tournament to be announced during theFall Series.
For the second straight year, the HSBC Champions in Shanghai will not counttoward the PGA Tour money list, even though it is a World Golf Championshiprecognized fully by every other tour in the world. That event has a $7 millionpurse, while another unofficial event sanctioned by the PGA Tour, the AsiaPacific Golf Classic in Malaysia, offers a $6 million purse.
The season begins Jan. 7 with the SBS Championship on Maui, and concludesNov. 14 at Disney.
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